New Delhi - Its healthcare system crippled by international economic sanctions, Iran has asked India for help to procure life-saving drugs for patients battling critical illnesses in that country.

Tehran has put in an urgent request to New Delhi for drugs to treat lung and breast cancers; brain tumours; heart ailments; infections after kidney, heart and pancreas transplants; meningitis in HIV patients; arthritis; bronchitis and respiratory distress in newborns; and epilepsy, South Block sources told The Indian Express.

On December 27, the sources said, the government forwarded the request for 28 essential medicines to Indian pharmaceutical companies. The required quantities range from 1,000 units to 5 million units and, put together, it is turning out to be the largest consignment of medicines exported from India in recent times.

Irans health ministry has been in constant touch with the Indian government, and a delegation of Indian pharma firms visited Tehran in early December 2012 to meet both government officials and Iranian pharma executives. On January 2, Irans national security adviser Saeed Jalili told a think-tank audience in Delhi that international economic sanctions on Iran were not a threat, but an opportunity.

Although trade in medicine is exempt from international sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council and the unilateral sanctions announced by the US and EU, Western banks have been declining to handle transactions.

Can these clowns somehow turn the drugs, especially the radioactive ones, into radiological or biological weapons? Can they trade them for the technology or other substances they need to commit mass murder?

I'm sorry the Iranians are hurt by the sanctions, but they got themselves into this mess; the only way they can can get out is to restore the trust they destroyed. Unfortunately for them, that will take a long, long time ... and a complete change of leadership.

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posted on 01/04/2013 10:42:43 PM PST
by Zakeet
(Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage - Mencken)

Iran is one country where we really need to make an exception between the Mullahs and the Republican Guard on one and the general population on the other.

The people are really a moderate, semi-Islamic lot who trace their civilization to pre-Islamic times which was when they saw their golden age. Shia’s are not Salafists. They generally tend to be a more modern bunch. As much as we hate the Hezbollah, if you ever went to Lebanon, you won’t see women forced to dress conservatively, nor a crazy lot wanting to apply Shariah on everyone like we saw in Egypt. Same for Syria - the Alawites are far more easy on day-to-day personal freedoms so long as the regime is not threatened. The Shiite countries also tend to be far more secular in how they treat non Muslim minorities.

Iran is one country where we really need to make an exception between the Mullahs and the Republican Guard on one and the general population on the other.

The people are really a moderate, semi-Islamic lot who trace their civilization to pre-Islamic times which was when they saw their golden age. Shia’s are not Salafists. They generally tend to be a more modern bunch. As much as we hate the Hezbollah, if you ever went to Lebanon, you won’t see women forced to dress conservatively, nor a crazy lot wanting to apply Shariah on everyone like we saw in Egypt. Same for Syria - the Alawites are far more easy on day-to-day personal freedoms so long as the regime is not threatened. The Shiite countries also tend to be far more secular in how they treat non Muslim minorities.

Iran is one country where we really need to make an exception between the Mullahs and the Republican Guard on one and the general population on the other.

The people are really a moderate, semi-Islamic lot who trace their civilization to pre-Islamic times which was when they saw their golden age. Shia’s are not Salafists. They generally tend to be a more modern bunch. As much as we hate the Hezbollah, if you ever went to Lebanon, you won’t see women forced to dress conservatively, nor a crazy lot wanting to apply Shariah on everyone like we saw in Egypt. Same for Syria - the Alawites are far more easy on day-to-day personal freedoms so long as the regime is not threatened. The Shiite countries also tend to be far more secular in how they treat non Muslim minorities.

Iran is one country where we really need to make an exception between the Mullahs and the Republican Guard on one and the general population on the other.

The people are really a moderate, semi-Islamic lot who trace their civilization to pre-Islamic times which was when they saw their golden age. Shia’s are not Salafists. They generally tend to be a more modern bunch. As much as we hate the Hezbollah, if you ever went to Lebanon, you won’t see women forced to dress conservatively, nor a crazy lot wanting to apply Shariah on everyone like we saw in Egypt. Same for Syria - the Alawites are far more easy on day-to-day personal freedoms so long as the regime is not threatened. The Shiite countries also tend to be far more secular in how they treat non Muslim minorities.

Iran is one country where we really need to make an exception between the Mullahs and the Republican Guard on one and the general population on the other.

The people are really a moderate, semi-Islamic lot who trace their civilization to pre-Islamic times which was when they saw their golden age. Shia’s are not Salafists. They generally tend to be a more modern bunch. As much as we hate the Hezbollah, if you ever went to Lebanon, you won’t see women forced to dress conservatively, nor a crazy lot wanting to apply Shariah on everyone like we saw in Egypt. Same for Syria - the Alawites are far more easy on day-to-day personal freedoms so long as the regime is not threatened. The Shiite countries also tend to be far more secular in how they treat non Muslim minorities.

Iran is made up of people who don’t want to live under the Islamic despotate, and people who do. The rest of the remarks about how moderate Shiites and Alawites are is just the same pro-Assad agitprop that pollutes FR the same way it pollutes the web.

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posted on 01/05/2013 5:37:07 AM PST
by SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)

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